The man who is well wears a crown that only the sick can see.

Wish I could take credit for this one, but it comes to me from Sir William Osler via Dr Patrick Walsh's Guide.

The last twenty-four hours have seen the passing of one emotional challenge (the catheter) and the rise of a new one (the incontinence).  Neither has been that tough physically with which to deal.  Emotionaly, it's a whole other story.  You know how it is.  We all have challenges and the first few times are most difficult, but after a while, we develop a system or compartment in which to deal with them most effectively for us.  I'm just at a point where once I git it figured out -- brand new challenges with their own unique requirements for addressing them.  Sort of like a psychological fun house ride where new stuff keeps popping up, providing a shock and dropping down - take a breath and ere comes the next.  Just gotta stay level.

The incontinence is doing better not every day, but every minute (so far).  Made it through the night -- no problems!  The confidence is building and I'm doin better all the time.  Heading out to see Helen play soccer and the b0ys play too.  Of course both games are at the same time in different places...that's just a parental thing.

Helen had to make a big decision soccer or cheerleading.  Chose soccer and played great!  Not only shutting out the competition, but also scoring the game winning goal!

At the boys game I showed up just in time to see Michael get kicked in the eye. But heard that he and Jack were scoring machines!

The boys came from karate Friday night in their new Karate uniform -- black robes and white belt.  Looked amazing -- for a minute I thought I might be seeing their Halloween costumes.  Our tables, chairs and oh yeah daughter are all still in tact as are the boys hands!  No emergency room visits yet.

The Tampa Rays starting former Met farm hand Scott Kazmir, the pitcher the wise sage Tom Glavine said would have no future, you know one of the most-feared left-hand pitchers in all of baseball did a pretty good job last night.  Combine that with the LA Dodgers, behind the leadership of American League East cast offs Joe Torre and Many Ramirez, are getting ready to extinguish the dreams of second city north-siders. LA to the Bay a nice ring -- not so hot for ratings.